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Old 5th Feb 2006, 00:40
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Originally Posted by Chimbu chuckles
It probably should be...at least in part...Na yu tingim mi tasol man bilong no' ( I have no idea what no' is, it's not a word in Tok Pisin). This translates to "And you think I am just a man from (no')".
Hope that helps....but it doesn't sound like he knew what he was saying either.
Chuck
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You should try and get your friend to complete the sentence so we can decifer it a bit better.

As far as Chuck dissertion above, "...it's not a word in Tok Pisin", Melanesian Pidgin does list the pidgin word 'no'

No ken smok - No.
I no gat man - Nobody
No gat - No.

Quite often 'no gat' is run together as one word nogat, or noken.

Not being terribly fluent in the vernacular, I had to resort to again reading Father Mihalic-SVD, book on the subject.

I hope it helps a wee bit.
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